Wrapping up its 13th edition, the Mobile Film Festival illustrates that even the shortest of short films can be poetic, aesthetic and impactful. This year the seven winners (which you can watch below), selected from 1055 films received from 88 countries, told effective stories which featured issues such as migrants, gender, night terrors, brotherhood, harassment and the value of a child’s eye view of the world.

MarBelle has a strange compulsion to watch as many films as he can get his hands on and find jobs that give him a legitimate excuse to drill filmmakers about their work. Directors Notes is the decade long incarnation of this disorder and remains so much cheaper than film school.